The Literary Consultancy (TLC) has launched a new scholarship aimed at providing “writers on low-income and/or from communities currently under-represented in publishing” with editorial mentorship and year-long access to TLC’s Chapter and Verse mentorship program. The 2020 scholarship is open exclusively to Black British writers and includes the mentorship of none other than Ellah P. […]
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Watch Joseph Adesunloye’s Documentary Film on The AKO Caine Prize
A few weeks ago, the AKO Caine Prize organizers announced that the award dinner held at the British Library will not hold this year due to pandemic conditions. As an alternative, they commissioned British-Nigerian filmmaker Joseph Adesunloye to make a film celebrating the five shortlisted writers and highlighting the impact of the prize on African […]
Two African Writers Featured in Beyoncé’s Black Is King Visual Album
Beyoncé’s new visual album Black Is King is making waves, but the exciting part is that there are two African writers at the heart of the project. Warsan Shire’s poetry is featured while Yrsa Daley-Ward is one of the writers of the film. This is the third time that Beyoncé is featuring African writers in […]
Ethiopian Author Mihret Sibhat’s Signs Book Deal for Debut Novel The History of a Difficult Child
Ethiopian author Mihret Sibhat’s debut novel The History of a Difficult Child, about “a girl child contending with familial & political upheaval in a small Ethiopian town in the 1980s,” will be published by Viking Press in 2022. Publishers Makertplace reports that the novel was sold to Allison Lorentzen at Viking by Ayesha Pande at […]
Idza Luhumyo Wins Inaugural Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award
Idza Luhumyo was recently announced as the winner of the inaugural Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award. The award had been launched in 2019 in conjunction with the publication of New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Worth £20,000, it is offered to a black, female student ordinarily resident in Africa and covers […]
Video | Zimbabwean Novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga Released After Her Arrest on July 31
Days after Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was longlisted for the Booker Prize, she was arrested while protesting. The arrest took place in the early hours of Friday, 31 July by the Zimbabwean Republic Police (ZRP). Earlier today, Zimbabwean news outlet TheFeedZW shared a video of her leaving jail and subsequently fielding questions from reporters. She […]
Founder of Modjaji Books Publishes New Memoir on Her Mother’s Final Years
Colleen Higgs, the founder and manager of Modjaji Books, has published a new memoir titled My Mother, My Madness (2020). Published on July 10 by South African publishing company, Deep South, My Mother, My Madness recounts Higgs’s experience caring for her mother in the last ten years of her life. The synopsis reads: A woman reluctantly […]
Handkerchief | Sharon Rose | Fiction
My boyfriend, last of his mother’s six children, fourteenth of his father’s nineteen, bought his mother a house. So, we drove amped on psychedelics and youth, in a seven-car convoy to a club to celebrate. The song of our convoy’s sirens cut through the muggy night and mingled with the random bursts from the guns […]
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